The Meat You Eat: Corporate Farming and the Decline of
the American Diet

The Meat You Eat: Corporate Farming and the
Decline of the American Diet Ken Midkiff
240 pages, softcover $23.95 St. Martin’s
Press, 2004

Midkiff shows us the ugly underbelly of
industrialized meat production: "Mad cow" disease scares, farm
animals shot full of massive doses of hormones and antibiotics, and
giant farms producing giant amounts of waste. What’s a
conscientious carnivore to do? Demand that your meat come from a
local, sustainable grower. As Wendell Berry writes in the
conclusion to this book, "Eating is an agricultural act."